Becoming a Man (Magill’s Literary Annual 1991-2005)
At a glance:
- Author: Paul Monette
- First Published: 1992
- Type of Work: Autobiography
- Time of Work: 1945-1991
- Setting: The United States, England, and Europe
- Principal Characters: Paul Monette, Bob Monette, “Big” Paul, Jackie Monette, Roger Horwitz
- Genres: Nonfiction, Autobiography, Memoir
- Subjects: United States or Americans, Politics, Gay men, Homosexuality or homosexuals, Love or romance, Twentieth century, Europe or Europeans, England or English people, AIDS
- Locales: Europe, United States, England
This powerful autobiography by novelist, poet, and acquired immune deficiency syndrome (AIDS) activist Paul Monette, winner of the 1992 National Book Award for nonfiction, is in many ways as much a gay morality tale as it is a narrative of Monette’s particular life story. Personal history here becomes the means of illustrating the stultifying horrors of the closet and persuading the next generation of gays and lesbians to abandon this shadow existence of exile and self-denial for the freely integrated existence that coming out makes possible. As he recounts his difficult journey from...
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